Holiday shopping season is winding down, but there's still time to get something great for the comic enthusiast/high-tech foodie/gadget addict in your life.

Agloves Grip Touch

Agloves Grip Touch

Price: $29.99

Winter: Time to watch your buddies yank their gloves off to answer an important call on their smartphones or tap their blue, frost-bitten fingertips on their tablets. And don't even get me started on those fingerless gloves. This year, treat your tech-savvy friends to a glove that will allow them to text, swipe, and scroll with ease. With highly conductive silver threads woven directly into the gloves, Agloves work with any capacitive touchscreen device and feature gripper dots on the palms for safer handling of slippery tech.

The 4-Hour Chef by Timothy Ferriss

The 4-Hour Chef by Timothy Ferriss

Price: $35

Tim Ferris brought a smirk to many a cubicle-dweller's face when he dropped his 2007 best-seller The 4-Hour Workweek, but it was his second book, 2010's The 4-Hour Body—and his philosophy about the minimum effective dose—that made me a believer in the cult of Tim. Simply put, the MED is the smallest dose that will produce a desired result, and anything done beyond the MED is a waste. With The 4-Hour Chef: The Simple Path to Cooking Like a Pro, Learning Anything, and Living the Good Life, Ferriss gives culinary klutzes everywhere the ability to cook like a Michelin-rated chef, but also teaches you how to learn anything you want in almost no time at all.